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Source makes no mention of a retaking of Mount Sinjar. The source actually says, as its title, they broke the siege of Mount Sinjar. Saying they retook Mount Sinjar implies ISIL was in control of it, which they weren't, they only surrounded it. EkoGraf ( talk) 19:18, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
EkoGraf, in his edit of 26 April, wrote that Peshmerga on 18 December ‘broke the siege of Mount Sinjar’. As motivation/explanation in his posting here on Talk page on 26 April, he referred to source The Independent 19Dec, which says that (A) peshmerga “fought their way” from Zumar to Sinjar mountain, (B) freed people trapped there by ISIL according to a Kurdish leader, and (C) calls that: ‘breaking the siege of Mount Sinjar’. Part (A) is a straightforward presentation of battlefield events. Part (B) is dubious: we have no previous information of ‘people trapped there by ISIL’, but nevertheless we can harmlessly enter that in our article if we clearly specify that it was a statement of ‘a Kurdish leader’. Part (C) is really a problem: for a siege to be broken, it would first have to really exist, and our article does not yet say or show that a siege existed there in December. (It says in § Background that in October ISIL surrounded those mountains, but while they did not have an apparent plan to conquer them, that situation was no ‘ siege’.) I don’t know why The Independent would want to pretend or contend that a siege there had existed, but frankly that is their business. Our business is that our Wikipedia article should be consistent. And as long as our article doesn’t state that before 18 December a siege existed, it logically can’t contend that it got broken on 18 December. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The article, in section 2 ‘Offensive’, clearly covers offensives of both the (Kurdish) Peshmerga and the (Kurdish) YPG (People's Protection Units). Also the Infobox already clearly summarizes offensives of those two Kurdish groups. The lead section should always summarize the main lines of the article, so in this article it should accordingly speak of ‘…a combination of operations of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish YPG forces…’, et cetera. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The Peshmerga offensive was reportedly directed by Barzani (but ofcourse not the YPG offensive). I’ve added that information to section 2.1: ‘Peshmerga offensive’. Also, I’ve removed mentioning Barzani from the lead section. Firstly: the lead must display, shortly, only the main line of the topic, and I see no reason why mr. Barzani – I have nothing against him, by the way – should be mentioned in this lead. Secondly: if colleagues see inexorable need to mention Barzani in the lead, then please do it in such a way that it pertains only the peshmerga offensive and not also the YPG offensive. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:18, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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The November and December offensives' pages are not too large to just have different sections for it. The infobox can highlight the different dates too. Not much of a difference per se, except the outcome. Lihaas ( talk) 08:19, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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Source makes no mention of a retaking of Mount Sinjar. The source actually says, as its title, they broke the siege of Mount Sinjar. Saying they retook Mount Sinjar implies ISIL was in control of it, which they weren't, they only surrounded it. EkoGraf ( talk) 19:18, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
EkoGraf, in his edit of 26 April, wrote that Peshmerga on 18 December ‘broke the siege of Mount Sinjar’. As motivation/explanation in his posting here on Talk page on 26 April, he referred to source The Independent 19Dec, which says that (A) peshmerga “fought their way” from Zumar to Sinjar mountain, (B) freed people trapped there by ISIL according to a Kurdish leader, and (C) calls that: ‘breaking the siege of Mount Sinjar’. Part (A) is a straightforward presentation of battlefield events. Part (B) is dubious: we have no previous information of ‘people trapped there by ISIL’, but nevertheless we can harmlessly enter that in our article if we clearly specify that it was a statement of ‘a Kurdish leader’. Part (C) is really a problem: for a siege to be broken, it would first have to really exist, and our article does not yet say or show that a siege existed there in December. (It says in § Background that in October ISIL surrounded those mountains, but while they did not have an apparent plan to conquer them, that situation was no ‘ siege’.) I don’t know why The Independent would want to pretend or contend that a siege there had existed, but frankly that is their business. Our business is that our Wikipedia article should be consistent. And as long as our article doesn’t state that before 18 December a siege existed, it logically can’t contend that it got broken on 18 December. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:16, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The article, in section 2 ‘Offensive’, clearly covers offensives of both the (Kurdish) Peshmerga and the (Kurdish) YPG (People's Protection Units). Also the Infobox already clearly summarizes offensives of those two Kurdish groups. The lead section should always summarize the main lines of the article, so in this article it should accordingly speak of ‘…a combination of operations of the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Kurdish YPG forces…’, et cetera. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:17, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
The Peshmerga offensive was reportedly directed by Barzani (but ofcourse not the YPG offensive). I’ve added that information to section 2.1: ‘Peshmerga offensive’. Also, I’ve removed mentioning Barzani from the lead section. Firstly: the lead must display, shortly, only the main line of the topic, and I see no reason why mr. Barzani – I have nothing against him, by the way – should be mentioned in this lead. Secondly: if colleagues see inexorable need to mention Barzani in the lead, then please do it in such a way that it pertains only the peshmerga offensive and not also the YPG offensive. -- Corriebertus ( talk) 13:18, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
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The November and December offensives' pages are not too large to just have different sections for it. The infobox can highlight the different dates too. Not much of a difference per se, except the outcome. Lihaas ( talk) 08:19, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
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